Although the newly built Eighty Towns of Lingzhou are called Town Forts, they are not actually traditional forts. Because the cost of building a fort is too high, even if you have free labor and building materials, it is not easy to build a fort in the true sense. At the beginning, Chen Ying did not think so much about stationing in Lingzhou.

Chen Ying had six Zhechong Mansions of Dingyuan Army and six Zhechong Mansions of Lingwu Army. These forces, even if the Turks attacked Lingzhou, they had to consider them. Not to mention Liang Shidu. Passive defense has never been Chen Ying's habit. Chen Ying's habit is to replace defense with offense, so the defense of the Eighteen Towns of Lingwu is actually very detrimental.

There is a blue brick wall on the outside and a blue brick wall on the inside, with a width of only six feet in the middle. If the soil is filled, it becomes the wall of the fortress. The wall is only one or two feet high. If it is said to defend against wild beasts, it is naturally enough. However, it is actually very difficult to prevent attacks. Not to mention cloud ladders, they can be easily turned into even if they are ladders.

Faced with the armed army, the defense that the town fort can play is actually limited. The reason why Chen Ying built this town fort was just to guard against Turkish rangers or small troops. You should know that without this city wall, a ranger with only a hundred people could slaughter up a town fort.

The only advantage is that the town fort has built an enemy building in four corners. The enemy building is about three meters high, which can accommodate dozens of soldiers on their daily basis. It also stores a lot of city guard supplies. Of course, each town fort has a beacon tower that can ignite wolf smoke or bonfire when attacked, and pass between the forts and call for support from Lingzhou City.

When the Seventeenth Town Fort appeared faintly in the snowy night, Liang Luoren complained to the point of Xin Liao'er, "This village is not small, I'll leave it to you. If you build this village, the food and women inside will belong to you!"

Xin Liaoer was originally from Qiang. At the end of Daye, he defected to Liang Shidu and was named General of the Central Army by Liang Shidu. The official titles under Liang Shidu were actually a big street. In the Tang Dynasty, the General of the Central Army was a fourth-rank military official position, and was the commander of the Sixteen Guards and Imperial Guards. He was a senior military position. However, the General of the Central Army under Liang Shidu was just a subordinate general and a lieutenant. Although he commanded a thousand people, he was only equivalent to a regiment-level officer in later generations.

When Xin Liao'er's originally dead face heard this, a green light immediately appeared.

"really?"

"What are you lying to do!"

Xin Liaoer said: "I hope to get some food."

Liang Luoren said: "That's not OK. The brothers have no food. The food in the village must be distributed to me. But don't worry, your troops will be the first to be listed. When you are full, you will give it to others."

Xin Liaoer looked at the swaying candlelight in the fortress and did not speak. She was obviously dissatisfied with Liang Luoren's allocation plan.

Liang Luoren waved his hand impatiently and said, "Forget it, take the village and give you half of the food, and all the women and money belong to you!"

Only then did Xin Liao'er run to the back with ecstasy joy to convey the orders and prepare for the attack.

Li Zhengbao looked at Xin Liao'er's back as he was leaving, spat hard at Xin Liao'er's back, and said angrily: "It's a good deal for this Qiang slave!"

"Bare? Hum!" Liang Luoren said coldly: "I'm afraid this advantage is really hard to take!"

"Just breaking the village?" Li Zhengbao said disapprovingly: "I will take the time for one meal at most for the general!"

"It's not a good habit to underestimate the enemy!" Liang Luoren pointed to the enemy's corridor swaying with candlelight and said, "We have made such a big noise, and the village still has no response now?"

Li Zhengbao was stunned.

Liang Luoren smiled and said, "Unless there are dead people in the village, this hard walnut can really break the two teeth of this Qiang slave!"

Song Wusao looked at the group of people rushing over under the city wall and suddenly felt inexplicably strange. These enemies had no ladders or shields, and even saved the action of shooting arrows to suppress the city wall covering.

"What are they doing?"

"It seems they want to climb the wall in!" Mu Xiuling said excitedly instead of being nervous.

"Our city wall is only 100 feet or two feet. Although it is a little short, do they really think we are dead?" Song Wushao looked at the local heroes hiding under the female wall, her face full of excitement.

These men and women who have suffered inhuman torture for several years or decades in the hands of the Turks no longer regard themselves as human beings. They feel that living a day is profitable. Now they have finally lived a good life and have some hope. Who wants to let them fight back to the past unless they step on their bodies?

The Qiang tribe under Xin Liao'er's command began to run faster. He was originally ready to bear the attacks of three or four waves of arrow rain on the city wall. However, unexpectedly, the city wall was still lonely and could not even see the figure.

"Maybe, all the people in the village have run away, or they are asleep!" Xin Liaoer comforted himself.

However, just as Xin Liao'er's troops were grouped with ten people, kneeling and standing, forming a simple ladder, and less than three feet away, they jumped and could jump onto the city wall.

Just when the first Qiang soldier just touched the battlement of the city wall, the entire city wall suddenly came alive. Hundreds of men and women holding wooden basins, wooden barrels or iron pots stood up neatly and poured the ones in their hands against Xin Liaoer's troops on Xin Liao'er's troops.

The weather now is almost like ice. The water poured on Xin Liaoer's troop climbing on the ant, so it was so sour.

It has turned into slowly cooling hot water. At this time, thin-skin frozen began to appear on the water surface. The enemy soldiers who had just fallen on the city wall immediately began to freeze into ice.

Although this is not like golden juice, it is heartbreaking, but it is not easy to feel bad. The soldier who was so cold that he was splashed by cold water and had not released a single arrow, Xin Liaoer's troops' offensive collapsed.

Two or three hundred people who were splashed by water immediately lost their combat power. In such cold weather, their bodies were wet, and their vitality disappeared quickly with the body temperature.

"Cold, cold, so damn cold!" Xin Liao'er's hand was frozen unconsciously. The mace in his hand survived in time. Despite this, he still tore off a piece of flesh from the palm of his hand.

The formation ahead was in chaos, and the soldiers also shouted wildly. At this time, the defenders who still put down the wooden basin and barrels picked up hunting bows and shot the enemies under the city like hunting. Unlike usual hunting, their eyes were not beasts, but living people.

Dozens of soldiers fell to the ground by arrows, and the others were busy retreating. However, the two or three hundred people under the city wall who acted as ladders could not be withdrawn at all, and they were already frozen with the city wall.

Although the Xin Liaoer tribes that were frozen under the city wall struggled desperately, no matter how hard they tried, they could not break free from the power of freezing.

Mu Xiuling picked up a wooden arrow and shot at the wailing soldiers under the city wall. Just as the arrow in her hand was about to shoot, Mrs. Song stopped her: "Don't waste the arrow!"

Two or three hundred people lost in one meeting, and Xin Liaoer was so angry that she screamed.

Liang Luoren and Li Zhengbao, who were watching the formation behind, looked at each other and smiled. Li Zhengbao was in front of Xin Liao'er, looking at Xin Liao'er with contempt and said, "You are fighting, yeah, how do you tell you to fight!"

Hearing this, Xin Liao'er was even more furious.

He ran to his own formation and roared. The Qiang soldiers took their knives and drew blood on their faces. These people formed another storm formation. However, for Xin Liao'er was not completely brainless, he ordered his archers to desperately pour arrow rain onto the city wall.

For a moment, arrows fell like rain. The defenders on the city wall were suppressed and could not look up.

Song Wushu said to the village hero beside him: "Light the bonfire quickly and let the envoy Yang prepare early!"

The five soldiers on the beacon tower received the signal and hurriedly poured the hot turbulent oil into a large pot and ignite it. The real function of the 18 Town Fort is actually to act as the beacon tower in Lingzhou City. When encountering an enemy attack, they use wolf smoke to convey information during the day, and at night, they use bonfires as their signal.

Originally, when the ignition oil burned, a large amount of thick smoke would be produced, and it was easy to extinguish it. I used distillation and refining methods to obtain ignition oil that was as water-like. This ignition oil could burn more than ten feet of flames as long as it was lit, which was the best way to transmit information at night.

As early as the bonfire of the Seventeenth Town Fort was lit, the enemy situation of the Seventeenth Town Fort in the northeast was immediately discovered by the Sixteenth Town Fort in the northeast, and also quickly lit the bonfire. Just like a baton, one town fort passed on the next town fort. In just half an hour, the enemy situation was discovered by Lingzhou City.

In recent times, Yang Ze has been worried that the Liang Shidu or the Turkic people will take advantage of the situation, which makes him feel a little nervous. Every night he sleeps very lightly. When the rapid footsteps sounded outside the door, Yang Ze was already awake.

He hurriedly put on his clothes, and at this time, the attendant's report sounded outside the door: "Empress, the enemy attack!"

If the fist did not fall, it was Yang Ze's most nervous time. When the fist came out, Yang Ze would be calm. Liang Shi was actually thinking of sneak attack, then the soldiers would come to block the water and the water would come to the earth.

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No matter whenever he underestimates the enemy, he will suffer a great loss. Just like Xin Liao'er, he did not look at the Seventeenth Town Fort at first, and believed that such a village could be taken down without any effort. However, by Song Wusao, he was watered with cold water and a burst of arrows, Xin Liao'er lost two or three hundred people.

Xin Liaoer attached great importance to the Seventeenth Town Fort, but after being frustrated, his morale was low. In contrast, the Seventeenth Town Fort showed momentum.

When Xin Liao'er's troops climbed the city wall again, Song Wusao asked someone to throw away quicklime, and the entire town fort was filled with white dust. The soldiers who were unknown subconsciously rubbed their eyes with their hands, so the tragedy came, and at least hundreds of blind men were instantly born.

At this time, even Xin Liao'er was hit. Even if he wanted to fight, he was still powerless.

The sky gradually brightened, and the corpses all over the city walls had frozen into ice sculptures. On the crystal clear ice sculptures, each corpse had a strange expression on the faces.

Song Wusao looked at the Liang army soldiers who were slowly lined up outside the city, and her face became solemn.

The real test is here.
Chapter completed!